The Old Slip piers along the East River, just below the end of Wall Street, used to be known as the Banana Docks for its frequent fruit shipments from around the world, including ships…
These man on the street interviews were recorded by me a long time ago. 1979. At the time, the concept of an information society, and information economy, the end of the industrial age, was…
This excellent colorized vintage photograph from the early 1900s shows hundreds of curbside stock brokers, well-dressed pedestrians, horse carts and old-time shops. The camera looks north…
The New York Fed’s gold vault is on the basement floor of its main office building in Manhattan. Built during the construction of the building in the early 1920s, the vault provides account…
Long before Charging Bull landed controversially at the Northern tip, long before the destruction of Fort Amsterdam which lied on its Southern face, long before it housed public protests…
This great vintage photograph from around 1915 shows the view looking west from the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge. The most noticeable structure is the three-facaded Manhattan…
At the time, New York City had a population of 5.7 million - the population had doubled in just 30 years due to mass immigration. The city was developing rapidly, and more than a quarter of…
Long before Charging Bull landed controversially at the Northern tip, long before the destruction of Fort Amsterdam which lied on its Southern face, long before it housed public protests…
Recreated in 1942 based on the old Castello Plan and Maccoun's Map, this great illustrated map shows the Dutch colony of "Nieuw Amsterdam" as it likely would have appeared in 1662. Many of…
This great vintage photograph from 1970 shows the World Trade Center's steel skeleton under construction. The building in the back is the North Tower, which began construction in August of…
